Christopher Auerbach-Brown

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Christopher Auerbach-Brown (* 1970 ) is an American composer and music teacher.

Auerbach-Brown studied composition with Dana Wilson and Gregory Woodward at Ithaca College and composition with Donald Erb at the Cleveland Institute of Music . The ASCAP honored him in 1996 with the Young Composers Award for his Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano from that in 1999 as part of the concert series Vector 5 for contemporary music at Carnegie Hall was listed.

In 1997 the Cavani Quartet gave the world premiere of its string quartet in the Weill Hall . The following year, Auerbach-Brown received a Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters . He has taught music theory and composition at the Cleveland Music School Settlement , contemporary music and visual arts at the Cleveland Institute of Art, and electronic music at Lakeland Community College .

The Finger Lakes Music Educators' Association commissioned him to compose an orchestral work that premiered in early 2008. His arrangements of Hasu Patel's works for sitar and orchestra have been performed by the Doctor's Orchestra of Houston and the Plymouth Canton Symphony . For the saxophonist Idit Shner he composed a work for saxophone and piano, with Andrea Joki he realized the installation Papersound . Auerbach-Brown is a member of the Cleveland Composers Guild and the American Composers Alliance .

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SURNAME Auerbach-Brown, Christopher
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1970